Clavia introduces Nord Stage 2EX

Swedish keyboard developer Clavia has announced a long-anticipated update to their flagship Stage series: the Stage 2EX, which debuted at this year’s Musikmesse trade show in Frankfurt, Germany. Below is the official factory press release.

NEW IMPRoVED FACTORY SOUND BANK

The Nord Stage 2 EX features a brand new Factory Sound Bank with both new sounds in the Piano Library as well as a completely updated and refined selection of sounds from the Nord Sample Library. We've also optimized our sounds allowing you to fit even more sounds without comprising playability. New sounds include:

Update for the Nord Stage EX OS and Sound Manager The Nord Stage EX OS is updated to v6.02. The most significant enhancement with this update is the compatibility with the v5 platform. Nord have also corrected a few

The Nord Piano is a dedicated stage piano with 88 keys and a weighted hammer action. It is designed with the performing musician in mind and very lightweight at approx. 18 kg (39.6 lbs), without compromising build quality, sound quality

The original Nord Stage (reviewed Nov. ’05) was a highly soughtafter performance instrument that bundled the best of Nord’s electromechanical vintage sounds with tonewheel organ and a single-oscillator virtual analog synth section, giving you access to up six sounds at once (two each of organ, piano, and synth) along with loads of realtime control in each section.

Clavia has just added a number of sounds to the Nord Sample Library (which is downloadable and playable by the Nord Electro 4, Stage 2, Nord Piano 2, Electro 3, and Nord Wave keyboard instruments) based on original master tapes used in the legendary Melltron--arguably the world's first sampler.